1961 Indy 500 Program

1961 Indy 500 Program. Prograsm shows signs of wear on cover. Been stored in a plastic cover and smole free environment.  Nash played nine seasons of professional baseball, including 13 games in the majors between 1967 and 1970 with the Chicago White Sox and Minnesota Twins as a first baseman and outfielder. He signed his first pro deal with the Los Angeles Angels. Nash was a three-time All-Southeastern Conference first-team selection in basketball and runner-up as national player of the year as a senior. He helped the Wildcats win two SEC championships on the court and earned all-SEC Eastern Division honors in baseball. He also threw the discus in track and field. Nash's No. 44 basketball jersey hangs in the rafters at Rupp Arena and he is a member of the UK Athletics and Kentucky Sports halls of fame. Foyt gave up the lead on lap 184 for a splash-and-go. That handed the lead to Sachs, who was now leading by 25 seconds. With three laps to go, the warning tread showed on Sachs' rear tire and Sachs decided to play it safe. Rather than nurse the car around, he pitted to replace the worn tire on lap 197. Foyt took the lead with three laps to go and won his first (of four) Indy 500 by a margin of 8.28 seconds. Nash played nine seasons of professional baseball, including 13 games in the majors between 1967 and 1970 with the Chicago White Sox and Minnesota Twins as a first baseman and outfielder. He signed his first pro deal with the Los Angeles Angels. Nash was a three-time All-Southeastern Conference first-team selection in basketball and runner-up as national player of the year as a senior. He helped the Wildcats win two SEC championships on the court and earned all-SEC Eastern Division honors in baseball. He also threw the discus in track and field. Nash's No. 44 basketball jersey hangs in the rafters at Rupp Arena and he is a member of the UK Athletics and Kentucky Sports halls of fame.  respectable 9th-place finish, completing all 200 laps. He had planned to run conservatively and make only two pit stops, but tire wear and fuel consumption forced him to make a 3rd stop, negating his strategy. Had he driven more aggressively with three pit stops, he might have been much closer to the lead serial. Five months after the race in October 1961, the front straight of the track was paved over with asphalt, and thus the entire track was now paved in asphalt and only a single yard of bricks at the start/finish line was left exposed from the original 1909 brick surface. The remainder of the original 3,200,000 bricks now lie underneath the asphalt surface. This meant that the 1961 race was the last 500 in which cars raced on the original bricks other than those at the start/finish line.